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Hawkins, Sir John 1520-1595
Naval officer; born in Plymouth, England, in 1520; carried a cargo of 300 slaves from Guinea in 1562, and sold them in Cuba.
In 1564 he attempted to capture and enslave a whole town near Sierra Leone, and narrowly escaped being captured himself and sold into slavery.
Hawkins was filled with the most pious reflections at his escape, and in his narrative (which is the first English narrative of American adventure printed) he says: God, who worketh all things for the best, would not have it so, and by Him we escaped without danger.
His name be praised for it.
His second cargo of slaves he sold in Venezuela and elsewhere.
In this second voyage he coasted the peninsula of Florida, and gives a fairly detailed account of it in his narrative.
He made a third voyage in 1568, and in spite of the King of Spain's prohibition, sold his cargoes of slaves to advantage.
In the port of San Juan de Ulloa he met a Spanish fleet much stronger than his own. He made